Champions Cup: The big semi-final preview with Henry Arundell
4/30/202651 min
Can Bath reach a first Champions Cup final since 1998? Do they have the gameplan to beat the holders Bordeaux in their back yard? Chris and Ashy look ahead to what promises to be an epic semi-final weekend. Henry Arundell is on the pod to discuss Sunday’s showdown in the south of France and what it would mean to reach the final with his boyhood club. We also catch up with Toulon and Scotland scrum-half Ben White as he looks to claim a fourth star for the French giants.
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First 90 secondsChris Jones· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly. Right. Rugby Union Weekly bonus pod time. Ashy's here. No better man than the greatest try scorer in European Rugby history- [laughs] ... to look ahead.
Chris Ashton· Host0:14
You li- You do like that line, don't you?
Chris Jones· Host0:16
[laughs] I've also been think- I've also been thinking, Ashy, uh, there is- That's gone now anyway, that one. No, it hasn't. You're still the, you've still scored more Champions Cup tries than anyone else.
Chris Ashton· Host0:26
Oh, no, I have. Yeah. I think in the, in a season. Yeah, that was, Pinos took that one, doesn't he?
Chris Jones· Host0:29
No, you've got loads of them, but you've definitely got that one still, for now, at least.
Chris Ashton· Host0:33
Yeah.
Chris Jones· Host0:33
[laughs] Give it this weekend. Um, I was thinking there's no way I can actually run 100 meters in 17 seconds off the back of what you were asking on the pod on Monday.
Chris Ashton· Host0:44
What I think's happened here, what you're trying to tell me, is that you've been out, you've put a little cone down.
Chris Jones· Host0:49
No, no, no. [laughs] I, I've actually not been, I've not been, I've not been well, so I've been, I've been, uh, I've been relatively housebound the last few days.
Chris Ashton· Host0:57
Oh.
Chris Jones· Host0:57
So I've not even been... Yeah, but th- you know, that's, that's 20- You don't look great, mate, to be honest. [laughs] Yeah, you say that anyway. Um, that's 21 kilometers per hour on a treadmill, isn't it? What this dude's done.
Chris Ashton· Host1:07
Yeah.
Chris Jones· Host1:07
Because he's running 42- Yeah ... in two hours.
Chris Ashton· Host1:10
Which is max, basically.
Chris Jones· Host1:12
Um, and that 21 is, is, like, 15 is a good lick, isn't it? So [laughs] it's absolutely insane.
Chris Ashton· Host1:20
It is. It is insane.
Chris Jones· Host1:20
Um, so no, I think, I don't think I'd be able to do his pace over 100 meters. Um, have you seen what's doing the rounds on the kind of marathon front, this Luke Littler versus Mo Farah